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I'm not sure why but for the last week my OA client keeps freezing randomly when I play, it's not lag or hardware problems because I can play other 3d games like doom3. I think when I'm frozen i'm getting this error Delta parseEntitiesNum too old. Please help I don't know what's going on here. Is there a way to run OA with full debugging or is that on by default?
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n/m about the Delta parseEntitiesNum but how do I get it to stop freezing?

Does this freezing only happen when you're playing on line? If so it sounds like you're freezing because of a poor connection. That's why you're receiving the Delta parseEntitiesNum too old errors.

Try connecting to servers with a low ping and make sure nothing else is hogging your internet connection.

Im glad to see you around here...! :D

Honestly Case, its a server problem, it happens with some other players too, not ME, but there are some other guys who told me about it...
The server has 2 other problems, when you are playing in, it "kicks" you out, common messages? Well.. these 2

1) delta parse entities num old (or whatever, cant remember it well)
2) something about the HunkMegs

I already told Alma she should fix that, but........ but..... *sigh*
I put a link to a q3 - NoGhost forums if Alma gets here and its in THIS (http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=1826.0) topic

I've already narrowed it down to a client issue; the freezing happens all the time single player and multi; and I can play other 3D games like Doom 3 without issues so it's not my video card(I'm going to recheck this because I only played doom for like 10 minutes); I reinstalled it but I did this through my package manager so I'm going to completely remove this time around and remove all my pk3s, etc, I'm also about 20 seconds away from just throwing my computer at the wall, but I'll recheck everything before I do. I also posted this message to the Ubuntu forums too but got no replies.

You should throw your hard drive away instead
because uh
I don't like ubuntu either (http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=1746.0)

its not ubuntu it's the openarena client

both 7.0 and 7.6 are freezing :(

Yea, you should remove all ur .cfg's and ur .pk3's files and reinstall OA completly. But If you guess which files are corrupted, then you can just delete/remove those files.
In my opinion you should start doing that, if the problem continues, well... Throw away ur computer... :P

It also helps to mention what your video card is

Okay I have tried everything now and no luck.
My card is a Nvidia Gforce4 and again it plays doom 3 without problems.

Doom 3 online? have you tried to play any other games online? Maybe q3?  no problems?

Make sure you haven't got any viruses, or any other processes running. (Guess if you are on linux you don't need to worry about the first thing.)
Also do not run it in windowed mode.

I think this ended up in the wrong thread ;)

Anyways im not sure what you mean by debug. Like run it in a debugger? Nothing would stop you from doing this though most debuggers on linux i saw are sadly kinda crappy :/ If you just want more output you might try running it with +set developer 1 but im not sure if it will be of much use...

Open Arena has forsaken me after 2 years(it feels like more) of enjoyment! Argh! I ran it under gdb  and used the developer option in game but it didn't give me any relevance to the freezing, although the 'stitched 40 LoD cracks' statement I saw was weirding me out, what else is there to do but give up? I don't understand how others don't have a problem with the client, my hardware is fine, my connection (which has nothing to do with it since it happens in single player too) is fine, and yet it won't let me play :(

I ran it in a failsafe terminal, using linux, and I've played every 3d game I have without problem :/ I can even play Urban Terror without problem and it uses the same engine!! what gives? Do the developers just hate me??

stitch LoD cracks?
try fiddling with r_lodbias -3 to 8

It baffles me because the Geforce2MX is still a supported card in drivers, maybe nvidia broke something for that card. It happened with the Geforce2GTS in 2005 :(

Death of a video card; I found the problem. Earlier I was playing Urban terror and that started freezing as well, then I switched compiz on and that was a train wreck. My video card has died.

it happens sooner or later. i bought a new monitor some years ago, i was sure it had blown up. but it was my geforce2 that had expired and gone to meet its maker...

i run 0.7.6 and i get freezing online a lot

and its completely ruined the game for me

i NEVER had this problem on previous versions and my connection is always really good so its not that

playing has become a joke sadly

like i play CTF all the time and love it - but at critical moments in the game the F***NG thing will freeze or the screen will jerk around

7-7 - im running with the flag to win the game , im yards away .....and....SHIIIIIIIT!!!

the fkn thing will freeze and some bastid blows my head off  and we end up losing

happens a lot

i love OA -but its become pointless playing it to be honest

the engine seems to be shagged to pieces

drives me nuts

:(

Thats why ME uses 0.7.1... :)
Where do u play CTF usually?? there is a server called Nemesis, u should try it someday...

My machines (all of them) freeze up often when new players join, and I'm on a LAN with my server. Others experience the issue as well... But not everyone. My machines are pieces of shit, so I assumed it was the models getting cached for the first time off the hdd, but... if you can run doom3, you're not on a piece of shit.

it has happened to me as well. locks up and when it gets rolling again you're already dead.

Ge-force 4 says it is. He would have to disable every feature & run at 640x480 to get even just a respectable frame rate.

Are you sure that the game does not lock up because you die?

The game is not supposed to cache player models when they join. Instead they should be cached upon checking the score. Since the score is displayed when you die it will often freeze just before the death message appear. If a player has joined and you are feeling secure you can call the scoreboard up to force model loading before dying.

i'm pretty sure that it's not because i die. it's not always a certain death, it dependes on whether i'm in a fight when it happens or not. i also play with forcemodels so the model loading should not be that big a problem. if i remember correctly the lagometer displays some odd signals - but the most irritating thing is that i cannot move, but i can see the other players running around shooting, and it's not delayed actions or people running into walls. i can even type and send messages when it locks up. but it happens very rarely so i've never really cared about looking for reasons :P

Exactly the same thing with me, i thought it was my connection.